A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8373 West, latitude 17.9473 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:50:19 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 11:50:19 / January 19, 2020 @ 11:50 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2020019006. Event ids that are associated: us60007amn, pr2020019006. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 25 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria, Dorado, Campanilla. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days six hundred and nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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